{"id":22224,"date":"2019-05-03T15:07:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T15:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=22224"},"modified":"2019-05-04T13:21:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T13:21:17","slug":"an-introduction-to-qoscar-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2019\/05\/03\/an-introduction-to-qoscar-100\/","title":{"rendered":"An introduction to QOscar 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noel Matthews, G8GTZ, Dave Crump, G8GKQ and Phil Crump, M0DNY gave a presentation at <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/agm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>AGM 2019<\/strong><\/a> on Qatar Oscar 100, the geostationary amateur transponder on the <em>Es\u2019hail-2<\/em> commercial satellite.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22225 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2019\/05\/GR3_1469-Eshail-mod-med-300x154.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2019\/05\/GR3_1469-Eshail-mod-med-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2019\/05\/GR3_1469-Eshail-mod-med-150x77.png 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2019\/05\/GR3_1469-Eshail-mod-med-768x394.png 768w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2019\/05\/GR3_1469-Eshail-mod-med.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>QOscar 100 was launched in February 2019 and has seen stations making contacts across a third of the globe on the narrow band and wide band DATV transponders.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation slides are <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.services\/public\/events\/agm\/2019\/presentations\/Oscar_100_RSGB_AGM_2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>now available to download<\/strong><\/a> (33-page\/3.06MB PDF) and include a brief history of the project, an overview of equipment required to operate Oscar 100 and an introduction and demonstration of the web SDR and spectrum monitor\u2014which allow you to listen to stations on the narrow band segment using only a standard web browser.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a recording of the presentation on the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/agm\/agm-2019-proceedings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>AGM 2019 proceedings page<\/strong><\/a> under <em>Listen to AGM 2019<\/em>\u2014play the afternoon recording and the presentation starts 20 minutes and 41 seconds in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noel Matthews, G8GTZ, Dave Crump, G8GKQ and Phil Crump, M0DNY gave a presentation at AGM 2019 on Qatar Oscar 100, the geostationary amateur transponder on the Es\u2019hail-2 commercial satellite. QOscar 100 was launched in February 2019 and has seen stations making contacts across a third of the globe on the narrow band and wide band [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}